Isabel Wilkerson

Caste

The Origins of Our Discontents

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"As we go about our daily lives, caste is the wordless usher in a darkened theater, flashlight cast down in the aisles, guiding us to our assigned seats for a performance. The hierarchy of caste is not about feelings or morality. It is about power--which groups have it and which do not. In this book, Isabel Wilkerson gives us a portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched narrative and stories about real people, how America today and throughout its history has been shaped by a hidden caste system: a rigid hierarchy of human rankings"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Gale, a Cengage Group
• Seitenzahl: 678
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Januar 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 147mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 813g
• ISBN-13: 9781432885168
• ISBN-10: 1432885162
• Artikelnr.: 61481729

Autorenporträt

Isabel Wilkerson, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Humanities Medal, is the author of the critically acclaimed New York Times bestseller The Warmth of Other Suns. Her debut work won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction and was named to Time's 10 Best Nonfiction Books of the 2010s and The New York Times's list of the Best Nonfiction of All Time. She has taught at Princeton, Emory, and Boston Universities and has lectured at more than two hundred other colleges and universities across the United States and in Europe and Asia.

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